Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune! —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Tags: integrity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: instinct Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. —Malcolm Gladwell More about this quote Tags: instinct Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. —Malcolm Gladwell More about this quote Tags: instinct Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. —Katharine Butler Hathaway More about this quote Tags: instinct Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: instinct Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: instinct Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. —Socrates More about this quote Tags: inspiration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. —Frank Tibolt More about this quote Tags: inspiration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. —Aaron Copland More about this quote Tags: inspiration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: death immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have Immortal longings in me. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —Susan Ertz More about this quote Tags: immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first condition of immortality is death. —Stanislaw J. Lec More about this quote Tags: immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email